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Geoffrey Wilkinson

1921 - 1996

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Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson FRS (14 July 1921 – 26 September 1996) was a Nobel laureate English chemist who pioneered inorganic chemistry and homogeneous transition metal catalysis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Geoffrey Wilkinson is the 215th most popular chemist (up from 239th in 2019), the 821st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 949th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Geoffrey Wilkinson ranks 215 out of 602. Before him are James Dewar, Roald Hoffmann, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Nikolay Semyonov, Paul Lauterbur, and Kenichi Fukui. After him are Sophia Brahe, Leo Baekeland, Osamu Shimomura, Giulio Natta, C. N. R. Rao, and Ahmed Zewail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Geoffrey Wilkinson ranks 58. Before him are Sugar Ray Robinson, Gérard Debreu, Yitzhak Navon, Jack Steinberger, Telmo Zarra, and Zdeněk Miler. After him are Harald Quandt, Nexhmije Hoxha, Dobrica Ćosić, Zizinho, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and Kurt Knispel. Among people deceased in 1996, Geoffrey Wilkinson ranks 38. Before him are Solomon Asch, Ademir de Menezes, Abdus Salam, Claudette Colbert, Lars Ahlfors, and Andreas Papandreou. After him are Fujiko Fujio, Masaki Kobayashi, Marcel Carné, António de Spínola, Helmut Schön, and George Davis Snell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Wilkinson ranks 821 out of 8,785. Before him are Mackenzie Bowell (1823), Douglas Adams (1952), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Annie Besant (1847), and Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1862). After him are James May (1963), Fatboy Slim (1963), Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence (1388), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Colin Maclaurin (1698), and Asma al-Assad (1975).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Geoffrey Wilkinson ranks 29. Before him are John E. Walker (1941), Derek Barton (1918), Peter J. Ratcliffe (1954), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), Herbert C. Brown (1912), and James Dewar (1842). After him are John Newlands (1837), John Vane (1927), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John Frederic Daniell (1790), John Pople (1925), and Ida Noddack (1896).

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